2011CBET.2658....1H

S. Howerton, Arkansas City, KS, U.S.A.; A. J. Drake, S. G. Djorgovski, A. Mahabal, M. J. Graham, and R. Williams, California Institute of Technology; J. L. Prieto, Carnegie Observatories; M. Catelan, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile; E. C. Beshore and S. M. Larson, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona; and E. Christensen, Gemini Observatory, report the Catalina Real-time Transient Survey's discovery of an apparent supernova in public images from the Catalina Sky Survey (CSS).

---------------------------------------------------------------------------— SN 2011 UT R.A. (2000.0) Decl. Mag. Offset ---------------------------------------------------------------------------— 2011ae Feb. 12.43 11 54 49.25 -16 51 43.6 15.5 4".9 W, 8".4 N ---------------------------------------------------------------------------—

Further unfiltered CCD magnitude estimates for 2011ae: Feb. 5.46 UT, [18.5 (CSS); 13.41, 15.3 (remotely with the LB3 0.35-m telescope at Rodeo, NM, U.S.A.). Drake writes that the presumed host galaxy has redshift z = 0.0060. The object was given the designation PSN J11544925-1651436 when posted by Drake on the Central Bureau's TOCP webpage, and based on the spectroscopy below is here assigned the final designation SN 2011ae.